The bicameral mind with its controlling gods was evolved as a final stage of the evolution of language. And in this development… — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
“Words have meaning, not life or persons or the universe itself,” he said. “Our search for certainty rests in our attempts at… — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
For if consciousness is based on language, then it follows that it is of much more recent origin than has been heretofore… — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
The language of men was involved with only one hemisphere in order to leave the other free for the language of the… — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
Abstract words are ancient coins whose concrete images in the give and take of talk have worn away with use. — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
Every god is a jealous god after the breakdown of the bicameral mind. — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
Indeed, it is sometimes almost as if the problem had to be forgotten to be solved. — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
We are greatly in need of specific research in this area of schizophrenic experience to help us understand Mesolithic man. — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
Idolatry is still a socially cohesive force - its original function. — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
Conscious mind is a spatial analog of the world and mental acts are analogs of bodily acts. Consciousness operates only on objectively observable things.… — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
Our search for certainty rests in our attempts at understanding the history of all individual selves and all civilizations. Beyond that, there is only… — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size the everyone does not know everyone else. — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
The legend of the parting of the Red Sea probably refers to tidal changes in the Sea of Reeds related to the Thera eruption. — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
“Logic is the science of the justification of conclusions we have reached by natural reasoning. My point is that, for such natural reasoning to… — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
“O, what a world of unseen visions and heard silences, this insubstantial country of the mind! What ineffable essences, these touchless rememberings and unshowable… — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
